"They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest --
adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage
the whole lot of them!" boasts Humpty-Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's 1872 classic,
Through the Looking Glass.

If verbs are in fact as conceited as Humpty-Dumpty claims them to be, perhaps
they can be forgiven for their hoity-toity ways -- after all, they are the
ones that bring a sentence to life. How many of this week's five verbs can
you manage?

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. -Claude Pepper, senator and representative (1900-1989)